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Pathfinder: AIDS
Scope|Subject Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade Publications|Videos|Websites
SCOPE: Aids disease is a growing problem of epidemic proportions. Over 15,000 new HIV infections occur worldwide annually. Aids drugs need to be more readily available throughout the world as well as greater education and awareness of the problem. The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student research in locating library resources that deal with the topic of aids.
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Books dealing with aids are listed in the Baddour
Library's online catalog under the following subject headings:
AIDS
(Disease)
AIDS
(Disease) Prevention
There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
CQ Researcher (online database, also available in hardcopy in the Reference Section):
Issues and Controversies database from Facts on
File
Some representative books from the circulating collection that are located upstairs in the library are :
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Banish, Roslyn.
Focus on
Living: Portraits of Americans with HIV and AIDS. Amherst:
University of Massachusetts Press, 2003.
Gostin, Lawrence O.
The AIDS
Pandemic: Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations. Chapel Hill:
Univ. of North Carolina Press, c2004.
Landau-Stanton, Judith. Aids, Health, and Mental Health: A Primary Sourcebook. New York: Brunner/Mazel Publishers, 1993.
Lyon, Maureen E. and Lawrence
J.D’Angelo.
Teenagers,
HIV, and AIDS: Insights
from Youths Living with the Virus. Westport,
Conn: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
Michel, Robert T. Sex in America: A Definitive Survey. Boston: Little, Nrwon, 1994.
Sparks, Beatrice, ed. It Happened to Nancy. New York: Avon Books, 1994.
Zegans, Leonard S. Psychiatric Manifestations of HIV Disease. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Co; 1994.
Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focuses on the topic of aids are:
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
American Sociological Review
American Journal of Sociology
Out
Psychology Today
Gender & Society
Sociology
Social Problems
VIDEOS
DVD 396
Angels in America
DVD 384
Homeless to Harvard
DVD 196
The Hours
HQ56.N47 1992 Negotiating Safer Sex
RC 607.A26 S45 1994 Silver Lake Life: The View From Here
HQ56.W53 1992 Whenever You Sleep with Someone
WEBSITES
CDC National Prevention Information Network
www.cdc.gov/hiv/hivinfo/npin.htm
Center for Aids Prevention Studies University of California, San Francisco
www.caps.ucsf.edu/
Harvard Aids Institute
www.hsph.harvard.edu/hai/
HIV
InSite
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu
Johns
Hopkins AIDS Service
http://www.hopkins-aids.edu
A supportive and informative source on AIDS
research.
Updated
12/11/2007
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